I know we have the SmartThings integration, but that’s for getting SmartThings into HA. I want the opposite.
There’s smartthings-mqtt-bridge, and this excellent blog post explaining how to do it, but appears to require a SmartThings hub?
My question is whether the hub is 100% necessary to accomplish what I’m after, or whether there are other methods or workarounds (hub emulators, for example) to do this without a hub.
Thanks!
(In case anyone is curious, my use-case is that I have a Samsung TV with “Ambient Mode” which shows SmartThings device states in an attractive UI that I can launch with a button on my remote.
I could easily use Chromecast to get a UI on the TV, but if there’s a way to use Ambient Mode for this without having to buy a Hub, I do prefer the Ambient Mode experience.)